Say Hallelujah: Tred Avon Players Sammie Adams-Mercer and Sharon Gilroy Preview of The Hallelujah Girls
[youtube id=”gDS3gBs0MB8 There is always something great about comedies built around southern women of a certain age shaking things up. From classics like Steel Magnolias to Fried Green Tomatoes, Hollywood and Broadway stages, some of America’s best playwrights have found it irresistible not to use these wise and sometimes eccentric characters only found below the […]
Food Friday: Eat a Peach!
August is National Peach Month. The world’s largest peach is in Gaffney, South Carolina. It’s the town’s water tower built in the shape of a peach. I took photos of it on one of our road trips – it is quite impressive. And now it is a landmark I look forward to, along with sightings […]
For the Love of a Goat and Cheese: A Food Story of Catherine and Al Renzi
Catherine and Al Renzi mark the beginning of their remarkable time producing award-winning artisanal goat cheese with the birth of a spindly goat named Rena. The vet, who visited their Yellow Springs Farm in Chester Springs, Pa., the day after her birth in May 2006, gave the goat a 30 percent chance of living. But […]
Cambridge Time Machine: Now Docking at the Wharf
Cambridge was built on maritime industries, including seafood, shipbuilding, and exports. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, steamer vessels were a common sight on the wharf.
We’re All Stocked Up on Crazies by Maria Grant
One of my favorite lines from Melvin Udall, aka Jack Nicolson, in the film As Good as It Gets is,” Go sell crazy somewhere else; we’re all stocked up.” I’ve been thinking about that line a lot lately. Here’s why. Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. has touted bizarre anti-vax theories, claimed that CIA agents were […]
Wine of the Week: Latour a Civitella IGT 2020
Ciao Tutti! This weekend at Piazza Italian Market we will taste a new white wine, the Latour a Civitella IGT 2020 ($29.95) from the Sergio Mottura Cantina in Civitella d’Agliano, Lazio. The estate was purchased in 1933 by a relative of Mottura’s and thirty years later twenty-one year old Sergio took over management of the estate. […]